DonorSpecialist

**Title:** Donor Specialist (Dallas/Fort Worth/McKinney) Belong. Connect. Grow. With KBR KBR is seeking a Donor Specialist to support our SPARC Program for KBR’s Science and Space division. The SPARC program (Service Personnel Advancing Research on CTE) seeks to: 1) Provide education to service members, veterans, and their families on brain donation; 2) Register individuals for participation in the Brain Donation Awareness Registry; and 3) Recover whole specimens, process, and prepare for shipping using appropriate methods. The goal of this program is to support research that is ongoing at the Uniformed Services University’s Brain Tissue Repository related to military brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. **This is an onsite position, rotating between various partner locations each day.** The Donor Specialist will be on-call on a rotating and regular basis and must be available to work nights, weekends, and holidays with previously scheduled on-call shifts. The preponderance of duties and work time of the Peer Family Educator will be focused on: * Approaching and educating medically competent military members and veterans about the potential to become a brain donor at time of their death, and about the opportunity for them to participate in the Brain Donation Awareness Registry. * **Lead and implement all aspects of community partner engagement, stakeholder coordination, and direct interactions with service members and veterans for assigned commands.** * **Establish and support regional community partnership and outreach events initiatives to strengthen engagement efforts**. * Approaching and educating families of potential donors about brain donation at the time of death of their military or veteran family member. * Serving as the primary point of contact to be notified about potential donors and answering questions from families, healthcare workers, funeral home workers, or individuals who would like to know more about the donation program. * Screenin